India has announced that its planned GSAT-20 communications satellite (aka GSAT-N2) will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in Q2 2024. The 4,700 kg GSAT-20 spacecraft is defined as a Ka-band high thoughput satellite (HTS). The satellite is being financed...
A launch of the PSLV-DL (flight number PSLV-C58) from Satish Dhawann Space Centre, Sriharikota, India took place at 0340 GMT on 1 January 2024 marking the first launch of the New Year. It was carrying XPoSAT – an X-ray astronomy satellite (official name is X-ray...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) performed a successful demonstration flight of the Crew Escape System (CES) via its Test Vehicle – a special single stage rocket – at 1630 GMT on 21 October from its Sriharikota launch site in the south of India. The...
Contact has been lost with India’s new Vikram lunar lander and Pragyan lunar rover after they suffered a very cold two-week-long lunar night. Hopes of waking up the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover from their sleep mode are fading fast as attempts have, as yet, only...
A PSLV-XL launch vehicle carrying India’s first solar research spacecraft was conducted to mark the country’s first launch to the L1 position. The Aditya L1 solar research probe for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was launched from Satish Dhawan Space...
India has become the first nation ever to land a spacecraft near the South Pole of the Moon, as well as only the fourth nation in the world to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China. After a 19-minute descent from...
